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August 10, 2013, Saturday

Lynne Stewart, who was sentenced in 2010 to 10 years in prison for smuggling messages from an imprisoned client to his violent followers in Egypt, is seeking to have her sentence vacated because she has cancer.

So that's why they tell their clients not to talk to us. Part of the ritual in covering courts as a reporter is going to lawyers after their clients are accused of something and getting the token ''No comment'' or ''We intend to vigorously dis...